Peter Judge

Vodafone has announced a new

Twenty years before most scientists expected it, a commercial company has announced a quantum computer that promises to massively speed up searches and optimization calculations.

SK Telecom is going to launch "super Bluetooth" aka ultra wideband (UWB) on the mobile market, despite an industry avoidance of the protocol. The South Korean mobile operator will be providing the technology -- which can transfer data at 480Mbit/s -- in handsets that should reach users in 2008.

Years after leaving the mobile market, BT will bid for WiMax radio spectrum in Ofcom's upcoming auction. The telco giant faces a struggle however as existing mobile operators do their best to hang on to "their" spectrum.

All mobile phones may be open to a simple but devastating attack that enables a third-party to eavesdrop on any phone conversation, receive any and all SMS messages, and download the phone's address book.

Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), the much-touted technology that combine mobile phones with fixed lines to save companies money, will be insecure, and most implementations will fail, according to analysts.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) has hit back in its new legal battle, and launched BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express, a bid to attract small businesses.

Gartner Inc. has warned that Oracle Corp. databases no longer deserve their reputation for security and advised systems administrators to do more to protect their systems.